Maps and navigation

[Chipwich]

Hey Greg, this is more of a question than a complaint, since you usually do your homework.  Just curious why to chose not to put the heading and distance on the briefing maps, and instead use a compass overlay?  I'm assuming that this is the way it was briefed, and perhaps pilots of this era used landmarks and the heading was understood to be a general guideline.  Still, if I were to have access to a time machine, the retentive side of me would be looking for a plotter and grease pencil for my cockpit map 

Edited July 25, 2022 by Chipwich

[Reflected]

Hey, this is the way it was in ww2, and it makes sense too: you just point at where you are on the map and you have your vector home immediately. I wouldn’t want to be fiddling with a pencil over enemy territory